The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis. Re-edited from ms. Ashmole 44, in the Bodleian library, Oxford, and ms. D.4.12, in the library of Trinity college, Dublin: by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat.

                                
                                  Thys is þe streme of Struma · with mony stedes clepyd,
                                
                                  And ȝit pure propre name · in persyens tounge.
                                
                                  Then A[lexander] als belyfe · hys abytt chaungez,
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                                  Thys renke with hys rounsey · he rydes ouer & lefys.
                                
                                  "Na! latt me lend with þe, lord" · þe lede hym bysekys,
                                
                                  "Lest anger or aventur · or ony suche falle."
                                
                                  "Nay hofe þou here," quod þe athyll · "vnto my agayn|Come;
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                                  He þat I seght in my slepe · shall me sekir helpe."
                                
                                  With þat he brades on hys blonnke · & brochez hym in þe sydes,
                                
                                  Bowys hym on toward þe burgh · als bright as an angell.
                                
                                  Thys reuer þat I first rede of · be rewle of hys kynde,
                                
                                  Als wele in seasun of somer · as in þe sad wynter,
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                                  And þat is neuer bott of nyghtys · so nataly it fresys,
                                
                                  To ony power on to passe · or preke with a stede.
                                
                                  Ȝit hase þe flode, as I fynd · a furelenth of brede, [Nota naturam aque de struma.] 
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                                  And euerilke mornyng it meltes · for myght of þe son;
                                
                                  With suche a rerde þen it rynnys · þe Romayns it wittnes,
                                
                                  Þat who tuke it in þat tyme · war termyd for euer.
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                                  Be þis aprochyd hym þe Prince · vnto þe prouude Cite, [folio 34a] 
                                
                                  band hys blonnke at a barre · withoute þe brode ȝatez.
                                
                                  The persyens of hys passage · wer passandly wounderyd,
                                
                                  And gessyn hym all to be god · for glory of hys gere.
                                
                                  "What domesman art þou?" quod Dary · & drofe hym ayayns.
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                                  "Sir A[lexander]," quod þis athell · "hase all þus me send,
                                
                                  Byddes þe to batell buske · what bode mase þou here?
                                
                                  Ouder ȝare þe ȝapely þarto · or to his ȝokke bowe."
                                
                                  "Wheder þou be he?" þe hathell sayd, · "so hetterly þou spekez,
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                                  Þou melles noght as a messenger · a mynyster bowez;
                                
                                  Þou Carpys likar to A kyng · þat Closyd wer in pride.
                                
                                  Bot I am dred neuer a dele · of all þi derfe sawez,

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Title: The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis. Re-edited from ms. Ashmole 44, in the Bodleian library, Oxford, and ms. D.4.12, in the library of Trinity college, Dublin: by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat.
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1886.
Subject terms: Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C. -- Romances.

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